turnback n.— «State Highway 40 between County Road 47 and U.S. Highway 12 would become a city street, if the state approves a request by the Willmar City Council. The council Monday night voted to ask the Minnesota Department of...
straking n.— «Mahesh said the Department of Transportation had been applying magnesium chloride to New Mexico roads for about five years. It is a commonly used chemical to de-ice roads throughout the United States. It must be mixed to the...
sharrow n.— «General support for employing alternative techniques to improve bikeways where bike lanes are not feasible, such as use of shared lane arrow (“sharrow”) instead of bike route signs for many streets and roads to provide...
sharrow n.— «Caught between the need for a continuous bike lane and the demands of drivers, Portland transportation engineers finally came up with a solution. Next month, the city will fill the gaps in the network with new shared-lane...
vomit comet n.— «Aspen partygoers, beware. Transportation officials have voted to hire a security firm to patrol the bus station and late-night buses on Fridays and Saturdays that commonly have to take drunken passengers home from Aspen...
stretch commuter n.— «The federal government has a term for these frequent fliers—”super-stretch” commuters. They travel more than 200 miles one-way to work and the Department of Transportation estimates there are 198,000 who...